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The road is our workplace. A lack of safe places to park means that it is very difficult to check our loads and get the rest we need to stay sharp behind the wheel.

We don’t want to “drive tired”. Help support long-haul drivers in our call for more parking and a provincial plan to address the shortage.

We demand:

1. Immediate action should be taken by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario to begin to resolve the parking shortage.
2. Set targets for new truck parking.
3. Priority for added parking, particularly at ONroute Service Centres.

See more from the Summary Report for a Study of Long-Haul Truck Parking & Rest Areas and Asleep at the Wheel: A critique of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation Response to SPR’s 2018 Highway Truck Parking Study and an Action Plan for Discussion.

Email your MPP

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https://www.unifor.org/en/take-action/campaigns/road-our-workplace

Universal, affordable, high quality child care is finally within reach thanks to a new federal plan, but Ontario’s Conservatives are dragging their feet and have not signed onto the federal plan.

Parents need safe, high quality child care that meets their family’s needs. Child care workers need secure, good jobs where they can provide excellent care. And children deserve quality care.

The federal government’s national child care plan, laid out in the 2021 federal budget this past April, pledged roughly $30 billion over five years to help build a Canada-wide system of early learning and child care.

Public investments in child carepay for themselves. Women are the frontlines of the workforce, but especially during COVID-19, we saw them being pushed out and relegated to stay at home because of a lack of child care.

The plan would translate into making child care more affordable, including $10-a-day child care in regulated spaces for children under six years old by 2026, additional spaces in high-quality, not-for-profit centres and fees for regulated spaces cut in half by the end of 2022, while supporting wages and working conditions of child care workers.

But, in order for this plan to work, provinces need to get on board.

Nova Scotia and BC already signed on, making the promise of affordable, accessible, quality child care and early learning one step closer for families in those provinces.

Ontario needs to sign on to the federal government’s child care plan immediately.

Add your voice today and tell your local MPP, Premier Doug Ford and Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce that Ontario needs universal child care.

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https://www.unifor.org/en/take-action/campaigns/ontario-needs-universal-child-care

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Collectively named “Geoffrey,” Tiny Mile’s remotely operated pink robots rely on built-in cameras and GPS to navigate the busy streets of Toronto. Connecting Geoffrey to Bell’s 5G network enables high definition video telematics data capabilities, improving real-time decisions and enhancing safety and response times.

“Bell is thrilled to work with the Canadian entrepreneurs at Tiny Mile to leverage the incredible speed and response time of Bell 5G and enable this innovative and timely food delivery option for their customers with mobile edge computing (MEC),” said Nauby Jacob, Senior Vice President, Products and Services at Bell Mobility.

In the first phase of Tiny Mile autonomous delivery on Bell 5G, remote tele-operators will be able to pilot the robots more easily with 5G’s faster sensor and video feed data response time. Tiny Mile will later implement Bell 5G and MEC service, moving computational power to the edge, providing ultra-low latency response and automating services like collision avoidance. Streaming data from multiple cameras and sensors on each robot will transmit to the edge with near instantaneous processing to guide the robot around pedestrians, moving objects or obstructions like potholes or poles.

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MONTRÉAL, Aug. 12, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ – Bell today welcomed a ruling by the Federal Court of Canada that orders a group of set-top box retailers to shut down operations and pay close to $30 million in damages and costs for making content available without authorization and inducing Canadians to access that content illegally.

“Bell invests hundreds of millions of dollars every year to develop, produce, acquire and deliver great Canadian and international content over multiple platforms, but content piracy continues to undermine the entire media industry, including the work of many Canadians,” said Wade Oosterman, President Bell Media and Vice Chair, BCE and Bell. “By imposing stiff financial penalties on companies that enable and promote unauthorized access to content online and via set-top box add-ons, the Federal Court has sent a clear message.”

In its ruling, the Federal Court found that three set-top box retailers and one individual (a director with one of the retailers) had distributed, offered for sale, sold, operated and possessed equipment used or intended to enable unauthorized and illegal access to content. Noting that “the growth of the illicit pre-loaded set-top box industry underscores the need to deter infringement”, the Court granted permanent injunctions against the retailers and ordered them to pay statutory damages totalling $29.3 million plus punitive damages and other costs.

The Federal Court’s decision released on August 10, 2021, is the direct result of legal action initiated by the media and distribution business unit of Bell and other media companies in Canada.

The negative financial impact of TV piracy on Canadian broadcasters and distributors is in the range of $500 million to $650 million per year, affecting thousands of jobs across the industry. Added to this, an estimated 1 in 3 piracy websites contain malware that can put personal information – for example, passwords and credit card information – and other data on shared networks and devices at risk. This judgment sends a clear signal that other entities who enable illegal and unauthorized access to content will face stiff legal repercussions

 

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